{"id":1716,"date":"2012-11-10T11:15:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T11:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.22.4.40\/news3\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2012-11-10T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T11:15:59","slug":"astronauts-land-at-alfaisal-university-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/en\/astronauts-land-at-alfaisal-university-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts Land at Alfaisal University Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4 renowned Astronauts landed today at the Alfaisal University Campus, to meet with University officials, faculty and students, as part of their community day.\u00a0 The astronauts, Vance Brand, Jeff Hoffman, Loren Acton and Tom Henman, who have been attending and participating in the Saudi International Space and Aeronautics Technology Conference, met with a lively group of excited students and faculty to share their experiences in space.<\/p>\n<p>A presentation was delivered \u00a0which gave the audience an insight into all the preparations that take place before a space mission is launched.\u00a0 Astronauts then spoke about their individual experiences and gave students advice on taking chances, opportunities and making the best of what you have.<\/p>\n<p>Provost Dr. Faisal Al Mubarak was pleased with the visit and participated in the session, with students and faculty.\u00a0 \u00a0A tour of the campus facilities led by Dr. Faisal was well received.\u00a0 Tom Henman stated \u2018This has been the most exciting part of our day today, your students are an asset\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 renowned Astronauts landed today at the Alfaisal University Campus, to meet with University officials, faculty and students, as part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,129],"tags":[],"college-department":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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